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Linnean Societv of London at Burlin<ftoii House. Haviiii; Ixm'ii four weeks 

 in England, and i;'oiie tlirouu'li most of tlic iniiiortaiit econoinic collections, I 

 left for Fiaiici> on the 10th March and I'eached Paris the same evening. I 

 engaged an interpi-eter, and next morning called upon Pi'ofessor Marchal, at 

 tlie Department of A'^riculturo, and with him 1 sjjcnt three days, first going 

 through liis collections and noting his methods' o^ work, and then in various 

 institutions. At the Jardin de Plantes I found the Natural Histoiy ^Tuseum 

 very beautifully arranged for the puMic, the nests of insects being jiarticiilarlv 

 fine, and went through the cabinets of diptern and other s])ecimens. Professor 

 Marchal informed me that the Mediterranean fruit-tlv has on several 

 occasions Ixvn taken in the orchards near Paris, but it has never become 

 established, and has prol)ably been brought in the larval state witli impoi'ted 

 fruit. The olive-fly, Da'us olea% is common in sevei-al districts in the south of 

 France, but has never become a serious p(>st, and they have no vegetation 

 diseases law to deal with anything but jihylloxera. I met the pi'ofessor at 

 the Pasteur Institute which has charge of specimens connected with the 

 tropical diseases, aiid attended a meeting of the doctors on " sleeping 

 sickness,' upon which they are carrying out many investigations. T was 

 also fortunate in attending the monthly meeting of the mendxM's of the 

 Entomological Society of France, and there spoke on our work in Australia, 

 my remarks being translated into French by Professor Picet. At Professor 

 Blanchard's laboratories I met Dr. E. Brumpt. who has worked on liio!o_'y in 

 Central Africa, and is now investigating the fowl-ticks and their methods 

 of transmitting diseases. At the College of France T nvt Dr. Felix 

 Henneguy, who had done a great deal of fine work on the morphology of 

 insects. With Professor Marchal I went through the Experiment Gardens 

 at the Luxemoburg, and also to Professor Griti'on's laboratories and expei-i- 

 mental grounds, he being Vegetable Pathologist to the Do^partment of 

 Agriculture and Director of the Grenoble Station. On the 13th ^Nlarch I 

 left for Madrid, and reached there on the following day. 1 first went to thi^ 

 Museum of Natural Sciences, where I examined the collections and met 

 Dr. Bolivar, the Director, who said they had plenty of specimens of olive-fly, 

 but iu)ne of the Mediterranean fruit fly, though it was at times a pest in the 

 south of Spain. I visited the Agricultural Experiment Station and ( 'ollege 

 where the Director, Professor Navarro, gave me a great deal of information 

 about the insect pests in Spain, and advised me to go to Valencia to see the 

 oi-ange orchards. I irujuired about Mr. Compere's statement that has been 

 so widely circulated through the newspapers, "that there was no codling 

 moth pest in Spain on account of the parasite he discovered there destroying 

 them." Professor Navarro said " tliat, from his own observation, he knew 

 there was hardly an apple grown in Spain that was not daTuaged by the 

 codling moth, but as tliere was no export trade in apples, and the whole of 

 the crop was usually turned into cider, the growers took no notici- of wormy 

 apples — they all went under the press." Next day I called upon the Minister, 

 and Director of Agriculture, and the latter so strongly advised me to visit 

 the Valencia district that I arranged to take my interpreter, and \ isit the 



